Well, much like in buying options, you have to guess both the outcome of a bet and the time at which it happens. The author right, in 2003, I doubt you saw man

Well, much like in buying options, you have to guess both the outcome of a bet and the time at which it happens. The author right, in 2003, I doubt you saw many people reading books on the beach with a clunky laptop or whatever version of kindle existed back then. So, from the mid 90s to mid 2000s, the author was decidedly right for 10 whole years, which is a long time. Now, if he continued to say that not many people would read ebooks on the beach from 2008-2018, he would have been wrong about that bet. But I doubt he would have felt that way, because by 2008, it was much clearer where the internet was headed compared to in 1998